Anniversary

In every issue

Editors' Letter
Dear Bitch
Love It/Shove It
The Bitch List
Bitch Reads
Suggested Listening
Plus: In Praise of Patti Smith: An icon and an album, 30 years on
Back Page—Annals of the popular girl

Columns

||| On Film—The Grace Lee Project: What's in a name?
||| On the Page—In praise of zines: Pushing paper in the digital age
||| On Language—Coming out: The pandemic of personal disclosure
||| On TV—Weighing reality: Who's really the biggest loser?

Features

::: Breaking the Waves—Vivian Gornick on suffrage, solidarity, and the longest struggle
::: Diva La Revolution!—The Adventure Divas take India
::: Bring Me the Head of Danny Bonaduce—Cultural complicity in celebrity narcissism
::: Me, Myself, And I—Fan fiction and the art of self-insertion
::: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Feminism—But were afraid to ask
::: Susie Superstar—A chat with Susie Bright, the godmother of intelligent smut
::: Black Girl, Interrupted—Hollywood's disturbed take on mental illness
::: Mary Go Round—What happened to TV's independent women?
::: The Shame Game—Desperate Housewives and the marketing of guilty pleasures